As Lancaster County Council convenes for its first meeting of the month, dangerous animals and landfills are once again on the agenda, though absent is any planned discussion about amending the county’s newly-approved budget.

A Lancaster teen who was wanted by deputies in two counties is now serving a nearly two-year sentence in state prison.

The Lancaster News learned Friday that Donnie Lee Laney, 19, 943 15th St., remains at Kirkland Correctional Institution. The Columbia facility is one of several institutions that are part of the S.C. Department of Corrections.

Laney was arrested in Chesterfield County after authorities there said he made several false calls to 911 on June 3.

Officers responded to Midway Grocery, located at 426 W. Meeting St., at 5:50 p.m. and spoke with the clerk who said she had just been assaulted by a customer, according to a police department incident report.

The Lancaster County Forfeit Land Commission has set dates for closing on the purchase of Indian Land's Edenmoor residential development.

The announcement came Wednesday during a motion following a closed-door briefing for FLC members by representatives of Eden Ventures, the development company working to buy the troubled residential development.

Employees at two local businesses were shocked when they arrived to open their doors last week.

It was a little after 7 a.m. June 30 when the first call came in to the Lancaster Police Department. A employee with Walgreens drug store, located at 1101 S.C. 9 Bypass, called police after noticing that someone spray painted the outside of the store.

Officers met with the woman who said the paint was not there when the last employee left the previous night at 11:30 p.m.

An Indian Land woman was arrested over the July 4th weekend after she allegedly went to a home where her daughter was sleeping over with a friend and assaulted both her daughter and the friend's father.

Gladys Moss, 40, of Pleasant Valley Drive, was charged with two counts of misdemeanor third-degree assault and battery.